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  1. Martian calendar on NASA Mars Rover Spots Its Ultimate Destination · · Score: 1

    Seems like a satellite could collect solar energy 24.6583 by 7

    How do you know the Martian week is 7 days long?

  2. A process of elimination on Getting Gouged by Geeks · · Score: 2

    And wallah it started working right.

    Praise to Wallah

    it was not a by the book type fix. We litterally had to use a process of elimination and had to have extra hardware available.

    Then please change your book!

  3. Surgery is the solution on Mitochondria and the Prevention of Death · · Score: 1

    So I might as well get my mitochondria removed at the same time as I go in to get my fear cured. Anything else I should ask my doctor for?

  4. Re:I'll let you into a secret about Britain on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 1

    There's no reason why both systems can't co-exist. Selling groceries in pounds and pints is only sensible, and there's no need to change. Likewise, why go to all the touble of changing road signs and car speedos? On the other hand, designing rockets and particle accelerators in inches is just asking for trouble.

    Here in France metrication has got out of control. Who knows what a decimetre is, and how many there are in a hectolitre? And when you ask for a "demi" in a bar, you don't get half a litre of beer. Oh no.

    Meanwhile I have a N.American colleague who calculates electrical fields with inches, feet and millimetres all in the same equation. Ouch.

  5. Re:You are not correct on Concern Over Creating Black Holes · · Score: 2
    Antimatter does not have a negative mass.

    The remaining six paragraphs (!) are not even wrong. You're not a physicist, are you?

  6. No exaggeration? on Overwhelming Bureaucracy in the IT Department? · · Score: 1
    Even a simple task [...] can take nine months and massive mountains of paperwork (no exaggeration)

    Oh surely you're exaggerating just a little bit. The geological survey people would have noticed a paper mountian.

    There are many ways to deal with an unresponsive IT department:

    • Resort to drink
    • Become a hermit
    • Slash your wrists
    • ...